堑 (塹) qiàn

  1. qiàn noun moat around a city
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 护城河 (CC-CEDICT '塹'; Guoyu '塹' n 1; Kroll 2015 '塹' 1, p. 362; Mathews 1931 '塹' p. 128; Unihan '塹')
  2. qiàn noun dangerous terrain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '塹' n 2)
  3. qiàn noun a difficulty
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 困难 (Guoyu '塹' n 3)
  4. qiàn verb to dig a trench
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '塹' 1a, p. 362; Guoyu '塹' v)
  5. qiàn noun moat; parikhā
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: parikhā, Japanese: zan, or: sen (BCSD '塹', p. 302; MW 'mṛtagṛha'; Unihan '塹')

Also contained in

地堑 、 天堑 、 坑堑 、 高壁深堑 、 吃一堑，长一智 、 长江天堑 、 路堑 、 高垒深堑 、 东非大地堑 、 高城深堑

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 4 Fo Shuo Li Shi Apitan Lun 佛說立世阿毘曇論 — count: 32
  • Scroll 3 Fo Shuo Li Shi Apitan Lun 佛說立世阿毘曇論 — count: 20
  • Scroll 2 Fo Shuo Li Shi Apitan Lun 佛說立世阿毘曇論 — count: 13
  • Scroll 66 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 10
  • Scroll 4 Mahāyānopadeśa (Bao Nu Suo Wen Jing) 寶女所問經 — count: 9
  • Scroll 8 Sutra on the Wise and Foolish (Damamūka) 賢愚經 — count: 9
  • Scroll 58 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 7
  • Scroll 8 Śāriputrābhidharmaśāstra (Shelifu Apitan Lun) 舍利弗阿毘曇論 — count: 6
  • Scroll 39 Sarvāstivādavinaya (Shi Song Lu) 十誦律 — count: 6
  • Scroll 75 Mahāratnakūṭasūtra (The Great Treasures Collection Sūtra) 大寶積經 — count: 5 , has English translation

Collocations

  • 宝堑 (寶塹) 寶塹七重 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 20 — count: 24
  • 城堑 (城塹) 平治城塹 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 15 — count: 17
  • 堑中 (塹中) 滿諸塹中 — Sutra on the Wise and Foolish (Damamūka) 賢愚經, Scroll 8 — count: 16
  • 深堑 (深塹) 謂度無明深塹 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 15
  • 重堑 (重塹) 度七重塹 — Fo Ben Xing Ji Jing (Abhiniṣkramaṇasūtra) 佛本行集經, Scroll 13 — count: 11
  • 堕堑 (墮塹) 墮塹受艱難 — Fo Ben Xing Jing 佛本行經, Scroll 6 — count: 10
  • 堑路 (塹路) 其大乘者有何塹路 — Mahāyānopadeśa (Bao Nu Suo Wen Jing) 寶女所問經, Scroll 4 — count: 8
  • 作堑 (作塹) 以七寶金銀琉璃水精赤真珠車璩馬瑙作塹壘 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 1 — count: 7
  • 墙堑 (牆塹) 七重牆塹 — Sutra on the Causes and Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Yin Ben Jing) 起世因本經, Scroll 5 — count: 7
  • 七宝堑 (七寶塹) 以七寶塹周匝砌壘 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 18 — count: 6